Word: warden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...realization of their own measure of responsibility for what has happened to them; if that comes to them it might be their salvation. It is an awakening which is expressing itself in the old cry heard after the last world war: 'Wir sind belogen und betrogen warden'-'We have been lied to and betrayed...
...baby grew up, the church became an integral part of his home-town life. Man & boy, he attended services more regularly than most. His devotion was rewarded when he was elected to the vestry. Later (1928) he became senior warden...
...details as church finances (as troublesome to St. James' as to most small town parishes). An unusual duty came when King George and Queen Elizabeth sent the church a morocco-bound copy of the King James Version of the Bible as a memento of their 1939 visit. Senior Warden Roosevelt and Vestryman Gerald Morgan were appointed a committee of two to draft a suitable note of thanks...
Franklin Roosevelt was not what most people would think of as a deeply religious man. Yet few of his predecessors in the White House could invoke God's help for the nation with more natural sincerity. Unofficially the far-off Vatican noted the passing of the Senior Warden of St. James' with a rare tribute: "The most Christian among statesmen...
...Oxford group are A. H. Smith, warden of New College, Oxford; M. Platnauer, vice-president and fellow of Brasenose College: N. H. K. Coghill, fellow of Exeter College: T. H. Keeley, fellow of Wadham College: H. B. Moore, Brasenose, College secretary; and F. Gibberd, architect...